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Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Heffers Children's Bookshop in Cambridge - one of my very favourite places - very kindly hosted an event to celebrate
the launch of The Phoenix Code, the first book of my new series, Secrets of the Tombs.

This is my new book . . . it's only nine days old! If it were a human it would be in nappies!

Lots
of lovely children (and their Mums and Dads) came along. I read an
extract and talked about some of the legends behind the mystery - incuding the benben stone and the bennu bird. We dined on magnificent Egyptian-themed cupcakes (a big hit; thank you to Sarah
Jameson Creative for making them so beautifully) and Egytpian hisbiscus
cordial or karkade (I'm not sure that this went down quite so
well - mainly because it was pink and everyone thought it was summer
fruit squash or Ribena and got a bit of a surprise when it wasn't that
at all!)